We are gearing up for an exciting 2018 Paddle Championship presented by Windhaven Insurance featuring three races built for all levels of paddling experience. The Long Race is a challenging 8.13 mile course rounding historic Virginia Key. The Short Race is a 3 mile loop in protected waters inside Marine Stadium Basin on Virginia Key. The Novice Race welcomes all first time and novice paddlers for a fun 1 mile race on calm water with a paddle board clinic available pre-race to master your skills.For our corporate teams there is the Corporate Challenge featuring a relay race complete with a short paddle course and finishing on land.The Orange Bowl Paddle Championship presented by Windhaven Insurance welcomes paddle boarders of all levels from across the country to join us. We encourage anyone, whether you have paddled before or not to join us for this family-fun event.The Orange Bowl Paddle Championship presented by Windhaven Insurance is a charity–driven event with a focus on children and community. All funds raised by the event will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami to fund mentorship activities in the area.

Join the Beach Volleyball Major Series 2018 FIVB World Tour for the biggest Volleyball tournament of the year, they're bringing the live action to our Fort Lauderdale beaches!The Fort Lauderdale Major bursts into action on February 27 with the first of five days of breath-taking action on the sand.Entry to the event area is free of charge, but fans can absolutely guarantee their seat inside the stadium for four important matches on the final two days of the tournament – Saturday and Sunday – by purchasing tickets.See opening hours >

The 8th annual March For Cancer is taking place on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 7am at DC Alexander Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.This march will generate funds that will assist with cancer targeted initiatives throughout the state of Florida.

January 25, 2018

Josh: The Dolphins Got Worse This Week

The Dolphins got worse this week. Plain and simple. Trading away a pro bowl running back for a 4th round pick (a mere 4th rounder!) that can't benefit the team until next season, hurt the squad. The Dolphins offense, ranked dead last among 32 NFL teams, just took a step further backwards. Sure Jay Ajayi had seen his rushing average go down from 4.9 yards per carry last season to 3.4 this year. But my eyes tell me it's much more a function of a leaky offensive line than of a regression of Ajayi.

Following an embarrassing 40-0 loss to the Ravens, Adam Gase once again called out his offense. This time it was for the players not doing enough homework on their own and thus being underprepared for games. While Gase didn't name players, a blind man could see Ajayi was one of his targets. It became apparent that Gase and Ajayi had a personality clash. And for Gase, the solution to not being able to play in the same sandbox as his starting running back proved untenable enough that it merited dealing away Ajayi to the Eagles. As an aside, Ajayi should send Gase flowers for shipping him to the team with the best record in the NFL.

Even with a 4-3 record and a brutal offense, the Dolphins are a playoff contending team. Let that marinate in your mind. This season the AFC is mired in mediocrity, consequently opening the door for a pedestrian team like Miami, a chance to play in January. As bad as the offense is, taking away the best player on that unit hurts those chances of qualifying for the postseason. Gase should have tolerated Ajayi through the end of the year and then dealt him in the offseason. At Gase's press conference on Wednesday, a day after the trade, I asked him if this year's team was better off without Ajayi. His response was it was the right time to trade Ajayi. So I followed up with the same inquiry, hoping to get a direct answer to my direct question. He hid behind "I like where we're at right now." The inference by his non-answer is loud and clear: The trade of Ajayi made this year's team worse.